But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
under the sun by abrownrecluse
- Bouchra Khalili’s The Radical Ally by Sophie Kovel
- Édouard Glissant’s Sun of Consciousness by Miho Hatori
- Jasmine Guffond’s Microphone Permission by Kristen Kubecka
- Kelly Reichardt’s First Cow by Michael Blair
- Books that Hold Performance by Sophie Seita
- Thalia Field and Abigail Lang’s Leave to Remain by Shelly Oria & Nelly Reifler
- Sam Pink’s The Ice Cream Man and Other Stories by Darina Sikmashvili
Editor’s Choice
- Charles Atlas by Erica Getto
- Amani Al-Thuwaini and Andrea Hasler
- Vi Khi Nao by Louis Elliott
- Netta Yerushalmy by Jack Halberstam
- Issue #151: Chitra Ganesh by Tausif Noor
- Bruce Boone by Evan Kennedy
- Tania Cypriano by Amy Jenkins
Interviews
abrownrecluse is an illustrator based in Detroit. They are the author of the zines OHMS BLOOD (2018) and Neu Seed II, among others.
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The artist’s new graphic novel delves deeper into his mythic Moundverse, where gentle plant–animal vessels are protected by TorpedoBoy and hounded by tofu-eating enemies.
Originally published in
BOMB 151,
Spring 2020
This issue features interviews with Chitra Ganesh, Tania Cypriano, Charles Atlas, Netta Yerushalmy, Vi Khi Nao, Amani Al-Thuwaini, Andrea Hasler, and Bruce Boone, as well as fiction from Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Justin Taylor, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, and Lee Relvas, and poetry from Shuzo Takiguchi and Bruce Boone.
